Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Games Workshop has not had much loving for Social Media for a while. A little over a year ago, they shut down their “main” Facebook page, though pages for individual Games Workshop stores, as well as sub-groups such as Black Library or Forge World remained. Now those have been axed as well, along with Twitter […]
Miniature wargames and tabletop games are – shiny iPad army-books and miniature sculpted with ZBrush notwithstanding – a profoundly non-digital hobby at heart. Miniatures are cleaned and assembled with knifes, files and glue, terrain is build the old fashioned way and battles fought with tape measure and dice. No attempt to integrate miniature games more […]
A lot of people like to give Games Workshop a hard time for what they perceive to be an old-fashioned or, at worst, even clumsy approach to handing their online and social media presence. Games Workshop’s decision to shut down their main Facebook-page is often cited as proof. Whatever your view of GW’s online marketing […]
It has been an interesting few weeks. Less than a month ago, the extremely popular Warhammer 40K rumour blog Faeit212 was taken down by Google (he since returned to this temporary site). It is widely suspected – including by me – that Faeit212 was taken down in response to a DMCA complaint GW sent to Google, […]
This is a guest post by Chris Ford of Tabletop Workshop. 3D printing is a wonderful technology, and as a plastics engineer in the toolmaking industry. I sometimes wonder how we managed without it all these years. A Brief Introduction to 3D Printing 3D printing has, for us, greatly altered the way we go about […]
Mantic’s Kickstarter-drive for the Warpath: Deathzone miniature skirmish game is soon upon us. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Mantic so far. One thing that is undeniable, however, is that Mantic’s by now a true master of stirring up publicity for their products (on Kickstarter especially). And they seem to have a whole lot of […]
A week or so ago, a few people contacted me to tell me the guys from Beasts of War had given me a brief shout-out in one of their shows. Funny enough, found myself skulking around the Beasts of War website and videos a bit as a result. I’ve not followed them closely before (being less […]
One things is sure. The dispute between Games Workshop and MCA Hogarth is starting to make big waves. Now BBC is on to the case! UK toymaker Games Workshop has been criticised for asserting a trademark claim to the phrase ‘space marines’. The claim emerged when it was used to get an American ebook about […]
It appears that M.C.A. Hogarth’s ‘Spots the Space Marine’ is again available on Amazon.com as a Kindle edition, as well as paperback edition. I am not 100% sure how that happened, though I take it as a good sign that someone (either at Amazon or in a legal meeting) had some sense and closed down […]
Slightly off-topic today. Great fun thought! Shortly after New Year, William Shatner of Star Trek fame send a tweet to Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, currently on the ISS and running a popular Twitter-feed with pics and details about life in space. Lots of Star Trek fun ensued. Though Twitter is a fleeting, as social media goes, […]
